Gregory Galant

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What the tape says about how Gregory argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported
Galant: Muck Rack reached $50M ARR before raising $180M in 2022
“I'm going to tell you about how we scaled our way up, ah, to over fifty million in ARR, which is about our size when we did our hundred and eighty million dollar round in 2022.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 0:57 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS

Everything Gregory Galant said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Galant: Muck Rack reached $50M ARR before raising $180M in 2022
“I'm going to tell you about how we scaled our way up, ah, to over fifty million in ARR, which is about our size when we did our hundred and eighty million dollar round in 2022.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 0:57 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Assertion Partly supported
Shorty Awards built the first Twitter social voting system in 2008
“So we built the first ever system. Now that's commonplace, you know, you want to vote, share it on social media. No one had done that before, so when we launched it, within 24 hours it became the top trending term on Twitter”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 3:39 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Insight
Bootstrapped SaaS bottlenecks flip from cash to hiring at $10M ARR
“Once we approached 10, it flipped, where all of a sudden we had plenty of money, and the hard part, the harder part became finding the right people to hire, figuring out what position to bring in next, really educating ourselves.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 11:06 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Disclosure
Muck Rack launched a free academy to target future software buyers
“We even launched this free academy to teach people how to, ah, how to do PR very early in their careers. It's a free certification. Anyone can take it, ah, academy.muckrack.com. And we know, like, we're not going to see ROI on that for three or four years, bec…”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 12:38 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Assertion Supported
Muck Rack quadrupled in size after abandoning its New York office
“So we ditched the office, went fully remote, ah, and since then we've, you know, pretty much quadrupled in size, so it's really, really worked for us.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 18:36 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
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Galant built the first version of Muck Rack for eight dollars
“We had an eight dollar branding budget, which is what it cost to buy a domain name on GoDaddy at the time, and it turned out Muckrack.com was free. So we built the first version of Muckrack in two weeks.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 5:35 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Galant: Over 10,000 journalists requested Muck Rack profiles in year one
“It took off virally with journalists, so we had over 10,000 journalists requests to get added in that first year.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 5:55 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Disclosure
Muck Rack scaled on $200K angel capital and Shorty Awards profits
“It was under 200 K of Angel, was the only primary capital we ever took, and we used some of the profits from the shorties, which was still part of the same company at the time that we reinvested in Muckrack.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 7:37 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Disclosure
Muck Rack co-founders retained majority ownership after institutional growth round
“We wanted to get to a scale Where we could do a round that'd be really meaningful and still stay in control so my co-founder and I are still a majority owner, still in control of the company.”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 14:24 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
Assertion Partly supported
Muck Rack launched generative AI agent PressPal weeks after ChatGPT released
“Just a couple weeks after ChatGPT came out, we launched PressPal AI, a press release generative AI agent that also suggests journalists to pitch to”
Gregory Galant Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 19:51 How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS

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How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS Apr 25, 2024 18m aired address
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